Hosiery.



E. WERM.

HOSIERY.

APPLICA-TIQN FILED SEPT- 10, 19:3.

Patented J an. 16,1917.

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ELIZABETH WERM, OF SWOYERSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

HOSIERY.

Specification of Le ers Patent.

Patented Jan. to, 191W.

Application filed September 10, 1913. Serial No. 789,151.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIZABETH WERM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Swoyersville, in the county of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hosiery, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hosiery and the object of the invention is to provide a sock or stocking which will be substantially selfsupporting. Most of the stockings or socks now in use are supported by garters of various kinds which either have a tendency to tear the stocking or are so binding against the muscles of the leg as to prevent proper circulation of the blood.

It is the object of this invention to avoid this diflieulty and broadly speaking the invention consists in weaving into the upper portion of the stocking an elastic member or members which tend to draw the stocking firmly around the leg and without causing any discomfort.

Another object of the invention is to provide a stocking having inserted elastic members so placed within the stocking as to make the same conform to the curvature of the leg and fit the same snugly at all points.

Further objects, of the invention will appear as the following description is read 1n connection with the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this application, and in whic h Figure 1 is a fragmentary elevation showing the top of a sock applied. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view therethrough. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. l showin a stocking having the invention applied thereto.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, 1 represents an ordinary sock having the upper portion thereof woven so as to conform to the outline of the leg. This portion is similar to all of the present types of machine made socks and may be termed the cuff 2. Interwoven with the cuff so as to constitute weft threads are a plurality of elastic bands which are spaced apart given distances but the point of least diameter of the end. This arrangement of increasing the number of threads and decreasing their diameter at the least diameter of the sock causes a snug fit in the curvature of the leg between the calf and the knee and effectively prevents displacement. lVhere all of the bands are of the same size and are spaced apart at equal intervals lower bands are the only ones effective in supporting the sock or the lower and upper bands are entirely too tight and tend to cut off circulation. Where the diameter of the bands is gaged substantially according to the curvature of the leg the pressure of said bands is equal throughout the length of the cuff and no undue constricting effect is apparent. In the stocking shown in Fig. 3 the number of elastic bands are increased approximately in the same manner, preferablyincreasing in number from the top of the cufi' to the center and from the bottom of the cufl to the center so that the stocking may be supported immediately above the knee.

What is claimed is A sock having a plurality of spaced annular elastic bands in the cuff thereof, and said bands being spaced distances decreasing progressively from the extremities of the cufl to the center thereof, all of said bands being normally of the same thickness and tension.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

Mas. ELIZABETH WERM.

Witnesses:

JAMES MGQUADE, JAMES P. DONNELLY.

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